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You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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Bote Careless Conceal Every Bote Harmful Number Serial Trace Vote
People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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Ant Bee Collective Live Love People Reason
Term limits aren’t enough. We need jail.
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Enough Jail Limit Need Term
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
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Cash Change Climate Climatologist Matter Maybe Research Threat Troll
Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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Business Cancer Country Nice Place Show Southern Spread
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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Around Brown Country Dog Everything Except House Kid Look
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
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According Everything Good News President Richm Pay
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.
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Independent New Poll Registered Republican Unreliable
Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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Country Good Make Nobody
There isn’t much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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More Much Outside Print Room View
Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Best Bought Guy Happen Journalism People Person Popular Thing Wonderful
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Difficult Discipline Parent Properly Size
Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Edit Simply Surrender
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Another Brief Death History Impeach National Out President Thousand Worry
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Archive Career Doubt Politics Profession Ridiculous Right Success

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